Purrfection

I was thrilled to win the August challenge at Words 2 Scrap By and was invited to be a guest designer for the October challenge.  The words to inspire us this month are: The road to my heart is paved with paw prints.  I've got two cats who have printed their paws on my heart!  Both were strays that we adopted and now couldn't live without.

For my card, I had to use a cat stamp (I've got quite a few!) This kitten is from the Chubby Chums set by Paper Smooches:

The papers and ribbon are from my stash.  There are many animals that could inspire a card for this challenge and I hope that you'll join us this month!

I'm entering this card into the Cardz TV challenge: Polka dots and stripes

Thanks for stopping by!

You rock!

Last night, I made a card for a challenge that became an epic fail and I'm happy to bounce back tonight with another card that I liked.  The inspiration started with this week's OWH Midweek Throwdown: Hexagons and a card that I CASE'd from Cheiron Brandon (I couldn't find the exact post from her, but I wanted to give her the credit).

 

I cut the hexagons at 1.5 inches from my stash of neon papers and embossed the sentiment by Paper Smooches.

 

I'm also entering this card into the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Anything Goes!  I hope you can play along with us!

 

 



Last OWH sketch for 2013

It's hard to believe that this is the last Sunday OWH sketch for 2013!  It's a great clean-and-simple sketch and I've already made 4 cards with it today!  Good thing that it's simple because I'm fighting a cold and my brain isn't functioning very well.  Here's two of the cards I made:

Sentiment: Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler

TV - Birdie Brown (so sad that she closed her store)

Paper: my stash 

Sentiment: Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler

Ribbon: Peanuts

Paper: Jillibean Watermelon Gazpacho Soup

 

I moved the sentiment to the left because I didn't want to cover the Snoopy sitting up.

Gotta go see if the Carolina Panthers are going to win!  Thanks for stopping by.

 

OWH Sketch #203

Happy Sunday to ya!  I loved today's OWH sketch and took a departure from the reds & greens of holiday cards to make a birthday card using teals & yellows:

 

I like my little birdie, which I colored with Copics, but I don't know who makes that stamp.  The "Celebrate" is by Paper Smooches and this is the first time I used their Sentiment Sampler set.  About time!  That means I can also enter this card into their Anything Goes challenge for this week.

 

I'm going to make a few more birthday cards with this, but not too many since OWH doesn't need tons of birthday cards. 

 

Hope you have a restful day and can find some time to craft.

 

 

Paper Smooches

 

 

 



SSS Wednesday challenge

I'm working on my holiday cards and thought I'd use a sketch from Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge, which is here:

 

I'm working on making a 12x12 holiday paper disappear by making several cards with it and this is the one I made from this sketch:

I embossed the white background that our cute doggie is sitting on for some added interest.  This is the Paper Smooches Santa Paws set.  Gotta love it!

 

I'm holding out for Black Friday sales from some of our stamp companies, aren't you?

 

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Fleas Navidad!

Hello and I hope you're as happy as I am that we're almost done with another week.  Although the OWH deadline for holiday cards has passed, we can still make them for our soldiers which works for me, since my Christmas spirit is kicking in.  To encourage us, the OWH Mid-week throwdown is Any Hero Holiday Cards.

 

I used a Paper Smooches stamp to make a punny sentiment card:

 

He makes me smile and I hope he does the same for one of our heroes.  This little guy fits the latest Paper Sparks challenge  - Trend watch - stripes .

 

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I hope you've got something to smile about too. 

Take care!

Supplies:
Paper Smooches Santa Paws
Paper: MME Merry 6x6 pad
Memento Tuxedo black ink


 



 



Holiday cards

Hi there!  I'm back from vacation and ready to get back to my craft desk and continue working on those holiday cards for Operation Write Home.  Using today's OWH sketch, I made this card:

The stamps are from Paper Smooches; the present is a Simon Says Stamp die.  I just love that little dog!  I'm going to enter this in the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.

 

 

 

While I was on vacation, I lost my Nikon DSLR camera, so I'm shooting with my point-and-shoot camera.  I'm on the hunt for another D40 Nikon now - boo hoo!

 

Thanks for stopping in and have a nice Sunday!

 



Sunday OWH sketch

I spent this weekend finishing my son's Boy Scout scrapbook album and prepping for next weekend's National Scrapbook day crop.  I always always prepare my photos & papers with a layout idea so I can scrapbook fast without frustration. It just kept me from making cards.....

 

As I was looking through my mountain of paper, I kept finding papers that would also work on cards!  But I waited until today to make a card - I tried to stay on track getting ready for the crop.

 

Soooo...today's OWH sketch is this one:

and I used a scrap bundle (that's where I make a pile of papers that match) to make this card:

The sentiment is from Hero Arts, inked with Hero Arts Soft Cantaloupe.  The half inch strip behind the card is also a piece of paper inked to match the sentiment.  You can't tell in the picture, but I  embossed the tan background and mounted it all on a peachy cardstock from Papertrey Ink.

 

I just got another Paper Smooches stamp set called Wake Up and altered the sketch for this card:

I love those little happy faces in the set!  They make me laugh.  I'm entering this card in the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge this week - Anything Goes.

 

My last bit of blog notes is that tomorrow I'm taking the His & Hers class over at Online Card Classes.  I'm sure some of you ladies will be over there with me - it should be another fun week of inspiration. 

 

I mailed a box of OWH cards yesterday - 113 cards!  Now that we're over the spring holidays, I may slow down, but when you've got stamps like these to play with, I can't stop making cards!  Ha ha.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge

Happy Saturday!  I decided to enter the Paper Smooches Cool Shades challenge today using these colors:

I was just using these same colors the other day on a card and I already had them out. 

 

I love Paper Smooches stamps, and I'm slowly building my collection of them.  The card I made today uses the Potpourri stamp, which I embossed on the three colors of teal, periwinkle and kiwi.  I printed the free PS Thankful digi stamp and mounted my squares on top:

 

I added bling to the geometric stamps and used Papertrey Ink kraft cardstock.  I just bought the Wake Up  stamp set from PS and can't wait to try it out. 

 

Thanks for looking and see ya'll tomorrow!

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